Dupaningan Agta
Dupaningan Agta, or Eastern Cagayan Agta, is an Austronesian language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Negrito people of Cagayan and Isabela provinces in northern Luzon, Philippines. Its Yaga dialect is only partially intelligible.
Geographic distribution and dialects
Robinson reports Dupaningan Agta to be spoken by a total of about 1,400 people in about 35 scattered communities, each with 1-70 households.- Palaui Island - Speakers do not consider themselves to be Dupaningan, but the language is very similar to that of the other Dupaningans.
- Nangaramuan, Santa Ana
- Barongagunay, Santa Clara, Santa Ana
- Valley Cove, Baggao
- Kattot
- Bolos a Ballek - village where the Dupaningan Agta language is most widely used
- Bolos a Dakal
- Santa Clara, Gonzaga, Cagayan